Football: start copying peak Messi attributes

Chapter 343 Lore Monaco, Ranieri was fired

After returning from Germany, Manchester City rested for two days before heading to Birmingham to challenge Aston Villa.

Aston Villa's own strength is not strong, but their playing style is relatively rough. When encountering them, even a wealthy team can't be careless. If you are not careful, it is easy to capsize the gutter.

Fortunately, the Manchester City team is in excellent form this time, and they have already taken a two-goal lead in just 20 minutes of the opening.

Even if Aston Villa resorted to foul tactics, it didn't help, and finally lost to Manchester City 0:3.

After winning this round, Manchester City leads the standings with a record of complete victories.

However, Chelsea was biting hard. In this round of the match against Arsenal, Chelsea at home relied on the goals of Hazard and Diego Costa to cleanly solve the Gunners 2:0.

As a result, they are still only 3 points behind Manchester City.

Manchester City's neighbor Manchester United met their younger brother Everton in this round of the game, and finally defeated the opponent with a score of 2:1 without any risk, won 2 consecutive victories, and rose to No.4 in the league ranking.

In this game, Falcao and Di Maria scored goals one after another, which slightly dispelled some doubts about them from the outside world.

After playing the Premier League, Manchester City returned home non-stop, ushering in a Carabao Cup game.

Manchester City's opponents in this game were not strong, so Pellegrini sent a large number of substitutes to play.

Even so, under the leadership of Yaya Toure, Lampard, Joko and others, Manchester City still beat Sheffield Wednesday with a score of 7:0 and advanced to the next round.

Manchester City, which won the third line, seems to continue the glory of last season.

The outside world is very optimistic about their completion of the first league defense in team history!
And this optimistic voice reached its peak in the eighth round of the Premier League, after Manchester City's 4:1 bloodbath at home to Tottenham.

"Eight Wins in a Row!Who can stop Manchester City? "

"The Birth of a Giant: The Premier League Witnesses the Rise of Manchester City!" "

"Tottenham is simply a toy for Manchester City. Every time they meet Manchester City, they will be beaten to death!"

"Tottenham's performance this season is not bad, and the standings are also very high, but in this game, it looks like they can't play football!"

"Yeah, it feels like I was born to be restrained, I can't kick it no matter what!"

"Actually, Tottenham's performance in this game is considered good. At least they scored a goal. Last season, Manchester City slaughtered Tottenham 6-0 at home!"

The fans are not surprised that Manchester City won at home. The Etihad Stadium has always been a devil's home that is difficult for other Premier League teams to conquer.

But they were very puzzled about the fact that Tottenham were severely taught every time they met Manchester City.

Although Tottenham is not considered a giant, it is the leader of the second team under BIG5.

There is indeed some strength gap between them and the championship group, but it is not so big.

But every time they met Manchester City, it seemed as if they suddenly couldn't play football, and they were easily slaughtered by a big score!

Last season, Manchester City scored 11 goals from Tottenham in two rounds of home and away games, smashing Tottenham to pieces.

This made Tottenham fans completely suffering from Manchester phobia. Among the 20 teams in the Premier League, Manchester City has been promoted to the team they least expect to encounter!
Just when the outside world was shocked by Manchester City's eight-game winning streak and their strong state of defeating Tottenham by a big score.

A veteran journalist wrote in his column:

"The Premier League is dying! "

The subtitle is - a strong Manchester City may destroy the foundation of the Premier League!
The reporter took a very eye-catching headline, which seems to be a headline party.

But his article does have something, which lists a lot of data and technical analysis, which seems to have something to say at least.

The reporter believes that the Premier League has always relied on the fierce competition among many giants and the huge suspense of winning the championship every season to attract audiences.

If Manchester City continues to be so strong and forms a monopoly on the championship, then the Premier League may lose their biggest selling point.

At that time, the attractiveness of the Premier League is bound to drop significantly, just like the Bundesliga.

In the past few seasons, due to the rise of Dortmund and the decline of Bayern's dominance, the Bundesliga's overseas ratings have increased and its influence has expanded a lot.

However, with the decline of Dortmund in recent seasons, Bayern has once again regained its dominance in the domestic league. Last season, under the leadership of Guardiola, it created the second longest unbeaten record in the five major leagues.

This has made Bundesliga games dull again and overseas ratings have suffered.

"Conscience reporter, what you said is very reasonable, we can't let the Manchester City family dominate!"

"That's right, we should call on other teams to unite and fight against Manchester City!"

"Count me Manchester United!"

"Chelsea counts as one!"

"The Gunners intend to join!"

"The Red Army has long disliked Manchester City!"

"Tottenham, I, Tottenham, are also willing to contribute..."

All the team fans collectively said: "Go away!"

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Although these are all things made by some fans on the Internet, these Premier League teams have their own grievances and grudges with each other, and it is unlikely that they will let go of their grievances and unite for Manchester City.

After all, if you want to monopolize the Premier League championship, Manchester United in the Ferguson era has already monopolized it.

At that time, the major teams didn't say anything, why now it's Manchester City's turn to start chattering?

Is it because Manchester City is an upstart in their eyes and has no background. They were used to bullying Manchester City before, and they couldn't get used to Manchester City being above them for a while.

It doesn't matter, wait for Manchester City to win them a few more times and win a few more Premier League titles, they will get used to it!
That being said, the repercussions of being the league's public enemy were quickly felt.

Because Manchester City will go to Monaco in the third round of the Champions League group stage, and only one day after the end of the game, they will go to London to challenge West Ham United.

The timing of these two games is too close, so Manchester City applied to postpone the league.

They also made this kind of application once last season. In order to support the Premier League teams to play well in the Champions League, the Premier League supported them very much. After coordinating with Aston Villa, the game was successfully postponed.

But this time, Manchester City's application was rejected.

Not only was the league's perfunctory attitude and unwillingness to help, even West Ham United rejected Manchester City's application.

To be able to play against Manchester City when they are exhausted and in poor form is what West Ham United can't wait for, and naturally they are unwilling to postpone the schedule.

After the application for the postponement of the ninth round of the league was rejected, it had a considerable impact on Manchester City's preparations.

Monaco is in the south of France, about 2000 kilometers away from Manchester, which is not close.

The team goes back and forth between the two places once, and it takes five or six hours to waste just on the plane.

But this game is also very important for Manchester City. Monaco's strength ranks second in the group, and its points are currently ranked second.

It can be said that they are the only team capable of threatening Manchester City's first qualifying group.

If you give up this game and give the opponent three points, then Monaco's points will be tied with Manchester City, which is not a good thing for Manchester City.

On the contrary, if they go all out to win this game, Manchester City's lead over Monaco can be extended to 6 points.

With three games left in the group stage, it is difficult for Monaco to tie the score, and the situation of Manchester City qualifying as the first in the group is basically stable.

Once it is determined that the group is the first to qualify, they can consider giving up strategically for the rest of the game and concentrate on the league.

In this way, before the Champions League knockout rounds start, the team's main players can get a certain amount of breathing time.

In the end, Pellegrini decided to use his main force and send troops to Monaco!
Like Chelsea, Monaco's owner Rybonovlev is also an oligarch from Russia.

I don't know whether it is a true love of football, or seeing Abramovich's great success in the Premier League. The Russian rich man bought the Monaco club in 2011 with huge sums of money.

After buying the team, he invited the tinkerer Ranieri, and spent huge sums of money in the transfer market to introduce big-name players.

In just a few seasons, Monaco has spent hundreds of millions of euros and bought countless stars.

After investing so much money, he naturally needs better results to return his investment.

So Rybonovlev gave Ranieri a death order, requiring him to at least complete one of the two goals of winning the Ligue [-] championship or the Champions League semi-finals.

It's just that neither of these two goals seems easy for Monaco.

Although Monaco has invested a lot, in Ligue [-], there is another team whose investment is even crazier than them-Paris Saint-Germain!

In the field of gold dollar football, even Manchester City has to bow down to Paris Saint-Germain.

The money that Monaco burned was only a fraction of the other party's, which was nothing at all.

Therefore, the tinkerer is destined to be unable to fulfill the request of the Russian boss.

Moreover, Ranieri has a characteristic. He has a very good record in leading those middle and lower teams with a certain foundation.

But when coaching a wealthy team, the record is often very bad.

If it weren't for this, he wouldn't be frequently fired by wealthy teams.

Monaco's previous lineup may have been just right for Ranieri, but after the big boss spent a lot of money to buy a lot of players, Ranieri was a bit overwhelmed.

He is not very good at dealing with the relationship with these players, so it is difficult to tap the full potential of these players.

Therefore, in the face of the menacing Manchester City, Ranieri consciously played a defensive counterattack tactic.

This tactic is basically the best choice for non-rich teams to face Manchester City.

Not to mention, Tinker really has something.

The defense he arranged was different from that of others.

Monaco's three lines of defense today are relatively close together, which greatly compresses the offensive space.

Moreover, their pressure was very strong, and they resolutely did not give Manchester City's players time to calmly organize the attack.

This makes it difficult for a team like Manchester City that is good at ground penetration to play. Even if it is as strong as Lin Quan, it is difficult to get a chance when it loses the offensive space.

And Manchester City's luck is not good today, just 15 minutes into the game, Kroos was injured.

Kroos' exit has had a considerable impact on Manchester City's offensive organization.

In the 80th minute of the game, the score was still 0:0.
In the Louis II Stadium, the Monaco fans continued to give out huge cheers, waving the flag for the team.

It can be said that it is an unexpected surprise for the fans of Monaco to force the defending champion to this point.

Especially when they were unexpectedly tied by Zenit in the last game.

Before the game started, the outside world was generally not optimistic about them, and many people even predicted that they would be bloodbathed by Manchester City.

In the box of the stadium, the owner of Monaco saw the team being suppressed by Manchester City in his own half, and was passively beaten throughout.

His face is very ugly!

What he wants is a hearty victory, not a draw won by defending like this.

Moreover, the game is not over yet, so it's hard to say whether their draw will last until the end.

Thinking of this, the Russian boss looked at Ranieri with unfriendly eyes.

He spent so much money to form a luxurious lineup, but this guy brought him into what it is now?
The big Paris next door can beat the mighty Barcelona in the Champions League, why can't you kill Manchester City?
Seeing that the game was coming to an end, on the court, the players of Monaco became more active.

After playing most of the game, I feel that Manchester City is not as good as imagined!

After all, this is their own home court. It would be a bit embarrassing if they were always pressed by the opponent and curled up for a point.

So, in the final stage of the game, they tried to counterattack Manchester City.

On the sidelines, Ranieri originally wanted to stop the reckless behavior of the players.

He has watched many game videos of Manchester City and found that Manchester City is very good at reversing or killing opponents in the final stage of the game.

Last season's Champions League semi-final, they eliminated Real Madrid in the away game is proof.

So don't look at them playing good football for 80 minutes, but once they slack in the final stage of the game, what awaits them is likely to be a disastrous defeat.

However, just now, the staff of the club came up to remind him that the team owner was very dissatisfied with the team's performance in this game.

The boss wants to see a win at home!
Ranieri is relatively honest, and the big boss has given orders to die, so he is naturally not easy to disobey.

So I can only watch the players organize the attack with trepidation, with a hint of luck in my heart.

If in case their counterattack works and they really score a goal, then no matter what they say, let the players all withdraw and stick to the end.

However, it turns out that playing by chance will not lead to good results.

In the 88th minute, Manchester City used the opportunity of Monaco's counterattack to counterattack the opponent's counterattack. It only took a few seconds to hit the ball from its own 30-meter area to the front of the opponent's penalty area.

Manchester City's counterattack was too fast. Many players in Monaco were still rushing forward. When the opponent passed the ball to their own half, they turned around and chased. How could there be time?
Lin Quan dribbled the ball into the penalty area, faced the attacking goalkeeper and calmly sent the ball into the goal, rewriting the score to 1:0.
Lin Quan's goal silenced the audience, and all the Monaco fans were stunned.

In the box, Rybolovlev's eyes were tearing apart!

He has made up his mind that he will fire that damn Italian after the game!

He regretted so much in his heart that he would have terminated the contract with Ranieri after the end of last season.

In that case, the team's record may not be so bad!

Poor Ranieri, once again became the blame man.

(End of this chapter)